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Food & Farming
Farm to School

24 Hours at the Market Garden

Watch a harvest day unfold and see what it takes to bring fresh organic produce to the Inn's farm-to-table restaurant and to our community, while serving as a classroom for learning.

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UN Sustainable Development Goals

What world do YOU want in 2030?

Our Cultivating Pathways to Sustainability Program challenges teams of students to make a difference in their communities by addressing one of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals at the local level.

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Three Sisters Soup

We collaborated with local partners to create a dinner in celebration of the Abenaki agricultural year. Each dish featured an important Abenaki crop, including this Three Sisters Soup.

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Experimenting with Wool as a Nitrogen Source for Farming

Our Market Garden is testing the effectiveness of sheep wool pellets as a nitrogen fertilizer, which could be an important value-added product for farmers raising sheep.

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UN Sustainable Development Goals

Representatives from the Americas meet to address education for human health and the environment

Shelburne Farms and partners hosted the 8th annual gathering of U.N. Regional Centres of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development -- those from the Americas. Greater Burlington is one these centers.

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Fall Farming Update

We caught up with the farmers who care for our land, animals, and produce – here’s what’s been happening on campus this September:

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BLT Tagliatelle at the Champlain Valley Fair

We recently wrapped up a ten-day stretch at the Champlain Valley Fair, providing food and agriculture education to the 100,000+ fair visitors. We're sharing a favorite recipe among the crowd!

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Food & Farming

Gleaning Season in the Market Garden

This is prime season for gleaning in the Market Garden--harvesting extra produce from the fields for various local food security organizations. Read about what it looks like.

Cheddar

Cheesemaking at Shelburne Farms

What’s the story behind our raw milk, farmstead cheddar? The Vermont Department of Tourism & Marketing visited to get a behind-the-scenes tour.

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The future of our Farm forests

Why a new forest management plan must be open and adaptive to the changes we are seeing around us.

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1611 Harbor Road Shelburne, Vermont 05482 

Telephone: 802-985-8686

An education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future through its programs, place, and products. Home to the Institute for Sustainable Schools, our historic campus is a 1,400-acre diversified farm located on the homelands of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki.

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Shelburne Farms is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (Tax ID #03-0229347)